Hi - For awhile I've been able to install 64-bit versions of recent kernels on Debian i386 installations, to reap the benefits of a 64-bit kernel without having to do a reinstall. This gives me a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit userland. I've a flurry of i386 VMs that moved hypervisors and now support 64-bit instructions, but I haven't wanted to reinstall them all :)
However, I haven't seen any amd64 kernels past 3.16.0-4 for i386. All of the 4.x kernels are 32-bit: (sinc:12:18:EST)% apt-cache search ^linux-image- linux-image-4.3.0-1-686 - Linux 4.3 for older PCs linux-image-4.3.0-1-686-pae - Linux 4.3 for modern PCs linux-image-4.3.0-1-686-pae-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux 4.3.0-1-686-pae linux-image-586 - Linux for older PCs (dummy package) linux-image-686 - Linux for older PCs (meta-package) linux-image-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package) linux-image-686-pae-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux 686-pae configuration (meta-package) linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 - Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs (sinc:12:18:EST)% dpkg --print-architecture i386 (sinc:12:18:EST)% Is this type of configuration now deprecated or will 64-bit kernels for i386 be coming sometime in the future? - Mark -- Mark Kamichoff p...@prolixium.com http://www.prolixium.com/
